 Next question is from Aaron Kersh, 7. How do you explain the importance of rest periods to the hit driven client? I used to, this was a constant conversation with people, right? And, you know, I would get into the whole, you know, energy systems of the body. You know, if you're constantly exercising, not taking breaks. Can you try to explain the crib cycle? Yeah, it's glycolytic and, you know, and you're just building endurance. You're not building the adaptation that we want, which is strength and muscle to speed up the metabolism. That's why taking rest is so important, which is all very, very true. Here's the deal. What is your goal with your workouts? Is your goal to burn as many calories as possible during the time you're working out? Or is the goal to cause a favorable adaptation for your body? Okay, two separate things. If you just want to burn calories, then don't take any rest periods. Keep moving and make an attempt. Just move constantly. That'll burn the most calories. In which case I'd say there's no reason to do hit with anything with weights, dumbbells, machines. Just sprint on a treadmill and you'll burn the most amount of calories. If your goal is to cause favorable adaptations, you want to speed up the metabolism, build muscle, balance out hormones. You want to shape and sculpt your body. In that case, take your rest periods and build muscle. That's it. That's the bottom line. So what's your goal? You want to burn a lot of calories in an hour? By the way, I used to tell my clients this, oh, you want to burn a lot of calories in an hour? There's no need to hire me. You actually don't need my expertise. I'll tell you what to do. You see that treadmill over there? Go run real hard for an hour. Jumping jacks in the sauna. And you don't need to work with me at all. Well, I had to battle this a lot, too. And one of the things that I would, first, I've learned, like, as a trainer, if you challenge your client all the time, especially if they're smart or they like what they're doing, they always resist pushback or put a wall up. So a lot of times I would commend them for the way they're training and say, listen, there's a lot of value in how you like to train right now. The problem is you lose a lot of that value after about four to six weeks. Our body gets very adapted to whatever modality or whatever we're doing like the way you're training. And then the results that you like from it, the burning, the body fat, the building muscle, all that part that you enjoyed, those returns start to really diminish. My job as a personal trainer is to be constantly programming and switching you up so that your body is consistently seeing those results that you love so much. And if we stay in this way of training, you're going to see very minimal results beyond that six-week period of time. If you want to keep the results coming, we need to completely change out of this. And completely changing out of it means we need longer rest periods. We need these straight sets. We need to train differently for a while. That doesn't mean we won't come back to this way of training that you love to do because there will be value here again. Yeah, you have to highlight that it's different for a reason. And a lot of times I'll get the clients like this and they're in a plateau. They're already in a space where they've been doing this long-term. They just want you to ramp the intensity up further. And that's why they hired you. And so to be able to connect with them and show them that, well, I know this is something that had worked initially for you, but you're seeing a wall. Just to throttle down more, it's only going to get us so far. Why don't you trust me? And we're going to try something completely different. It's going to be hard mentally to get through this. That's what I'm here for. But honestly, we need to build up your strength. We need to focus on building muscle and that takes rest. And so we have to include this in our workouts. Yeah, it's those clients that want, they don't realize this is what they want, but they just want a boot camp instructor just to yell at them to keep them motivated. I would see trainers like this. They were good at that. And I would predict, oh, three, four months that client's not going to come back or they're going to burn out or they're going to get injured. They're going to plateau very hard. And they'd have these huge turnover of clients. They'd be real good at that. Oh, you push hard. Come on. You can do it. In fact, you'd see them in the gym. That's basically what they would do. Just torch them. Yeah. And you'd see this huge turnover of clients, you know, except for the one or two occasional like, you know, Glutton's for punishment. They just have this huge turnover. The trainers that were successful were the ones that understood that their value was not in the, you know, pushing you to maximum intensity all the time. That does not last. I mean, look, here's the deal. Burning calories manually is hard fucking work. I mean, if I told you to dig a 10-foot hole, could you do it with a teaspoon? You could, but why wouldn't you use a backhoe? You have a backhoe accessible. Just use that. You're going to dig that hole in, you know, 10 minutes instead of being out here for the next two weeks trying to dig, you know, this big hole. Like, can you burn calories manually to cause weight loss? You could. Boy, there's a lot of work though. You're going to be doing hours and hours and hours a day for the rest of your life in order to do that. Why don't we teach your body? Why don't we just teach your body to do that for you? So that you can, you know, sit down, enjoy a movie with your kids, hang out, and your metabolism is a hot furnace, burning calories. That's what rest periods, building strength and muscle muscle. Become the backhoe. Absolutely, become the backhoe. There's lots of meaning there.